Writing the American past : US history to 1877 [edited by] Mark M. Smith

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Mark M. (Mark Michael), 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Sources.

United States.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Sources.

United States--History--1783-1865--Sources.

United States--History--1865-1898--Sources.

United States--History--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

x, 168 p. : ill., facsims. ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

Summary:

Writing the American Past reproduces dozens of untranscribed, handwritten documents, offering students the opportunity to transcribe, decipher, and interpret primary sources. Documents include diary entries from Massachusetts in the 1690s, a woman detailing the Great Awakening, an eighteenth-century treaty with Native Americans, a journal describing antebellum train travel, and a letter by a slave. An introduction and headnotes to each document contextualize the sources and provide a foundation from which the student can explore the material. - from publisher description

Contents:

Old world explores new: settling and securing Newfoundland in the early 1600s

The Chesapeake: indenturing labor, 1694

Life in seventeenth-century New England: Massachusetts in the 1690s

The middle colonies: a Philadelphia furrier, 1738

The lower South and slave society: slave resistance and imperial contests, 1739

Social order in the eighteenth-century South: slavery and Virginia's gentry in the 1720s

The Great Awakening: a letter to George Whitefield, 1746

Empire and native Americans: the treaty of Lancaster, 1744

Imperial crises and the coming of revolution: the politicization of a colonial merchant, 1765

Fighting the Revolutionary War: a woman on the homefront, 1776

Crisis, constitution, nation: probate data and the problem of becoming American

The new republic: a Massachusetts federalist in 1800

Jeffersonian America: on the road in 1818

Revolutions in time and space: tourism and travel, 1850

The age of Jackson: the view from abroad in 1828

The southern master class: an elite woman's school experiences, 1828

Lives of the enslaved: urban slavery in 186

The modernizing North: a businessman's letter, 1836

The age of reform: on the need for temperance

Westward expansion: Kansas and free labor in 1856

The coming of the Civil War: bleeding in Kansas, 1856

Secession: a South Carolinian describes the event, 1860

The Civil War:a Canadian soldier's experience

Emancipation: the labor of freedom, 1867.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

HSP Credit Line: Samuel Neave account, kept in his copy of Bradford's almanac for 1738 (Am .1075)

ISBN:

9781405163590 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1405163593 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

226356127